
Scheduling conflicts set to delay Bagabuyo murder trial for more than a month
VANCOUVER — Seven weeks of sitting into the first-degree murder trial for Butch Bagabuyo that has stretched between two courthouses, the entire proceeding will now be on hold until early August.
Bagabuyo is charged with the murder of his former client, Mohd Abdullah, in March of 2022 following a scheduled meeting of the two at his downtown Kamloops law office. Abdullah’s body was discovered several days later in a storage tote kept inside a rental van.
During a brief session early Friday morning (June 20) in Vancouver, Crown prosecutors presented a long list of new admissions of fact, before conversations switched to scheduling.